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June 19, 2011

Yahoo! OMG Philippines Named the Nominees for the First Purple-Carpet Awards Night

What was your very first email address? Mine was in @yahoo.com format. After that email registration (which I think was 12 years ago), my "online relationship" with Yahoo! just strengthen as I also explored and registered with other Yahoo! website and application services such as Flikr and Yahoo Messenger (YM).

Yahoo!, being the premiere digital media company and it continues to provide what the market, netizens and social media people's needs. Last Thursday, at the Opus Restaurant in Resorts World Manila, Yahoo! announced the launch of the OMG! Awards. It is the first of its kind event that will recognize the most searched celebrities on its newest and leading property in the Philippines. It is time to prepare the red purple carpet as Yahoo! OMG recognize the top trending celebrities and those who have propelled to stardom in cyberspace and used the power of the Internet to reach their fans.

The awarding would be on Tuesday, June 21st and would be hosted by JM Rodriguez and Andi Manzano. Someday Dream, Johnhoy Danao and UP Dharma Down will perform during the night. There would also be a purple themed fashion show by local fashion designers, Joey Samson, Jun Escario and Kate Torralba.

The Yahoo! team would produce an event in a greater heights of social media with live blogging from Cosplay Queen, Alodia Gosengfiao.

Ermin Lemuel Oliva, Country Editor, Philippines, shared "To determine the winners in each category, our editors will do a thorough trend analysis by assessing the percentage increase in the online searches to identify the most-searched Filipino celebrities. From this short-list readers will be asked to vote for their favorite."

Johnhoy is so popular in social media and Youtube
- and it was my first time to see him and hear him perform live!

Fabio Ide and Lani Pillinger invited us to the big awarding on June 21st

The Yahoo! OMG would be presented by Wi-Tribe and sponsored by Ponds, Sunsilk, and Clear. What's exciting is that OMG icons would be escorted in luxury cards provided by Jaguar and Land Rover, while Pernod Ricard, producer and distributor of premium wines and spirits would overflow in this purple-carpet event.

Are you excited? I am! Eventhough you can't be there physically, you can be there "social media-ly".